![]() He has opportunities to break out of the struggle, but his upbringing and environment pull him back in, either by his own doing or genuinely as a person looking out for others in the struggle. The central theme seems to be getting out of the struggle, but it isn’t plot driven like I thought it would be, nor is it as grim, it’s instead of slice of life in the hood from one young man’s point of view. Larry Fishburne’s character’s monologues from Boyz seens to be the knock against that film, though there actually is a similar monologue with Menace’s Charles S. The Hughes brothers love for Martin Scorsese is abundantly clear from the outset of Menace II Society, with smooth long takes matched with voiceover narration that makes you emphasize with the protagonist. I’m eager to call this Boyz n the Hood’s grimmer brother, because it does at times offer more on a cinematic level than even John Singleton’s masterful debut manages to do, albeit with far less mastery over character development, dialogue and performances.
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